Bain & Consultant interview experience

The main prompt was a market sizing question about the tuition industry in Singapore. I struggled with the way the problem unfolded and didn’t perform as well as I’d wanted.

What made it worse was the feel of the interaction itself. The interviewer seemed very groggy, and the timing was awkward—around midnight in Singapore time—so I couldn’t tell whether my confusion was strictly about the math or partly about the overall dynamic. Either way, the conversation didn’t click the way a typical market-sizing problem usually does for me.

After that round, I didn’t receive an offer. The biggest